Ben Davis

When Billy Lynch first realized that Tandon Doss might allow his promising football career to implode, the Indiana assistant coach did not call the wide receiver into his office or even grab him by the facemask and stare him in the eyes.

Lynch took Doss, then a true freshman, into the stands at Indiana's Memorial Stadium after practice. Still wearing his pads, Doss followed Lynch as he climbed toward the last few rows of bleachers resting in the shadow of the press box.

"I knew then that with a kid like Tandon, the biggest impact would be for him to have to stare down at that field," said Lynch, now the receivers coach at Rice in Houston. "He lived for that...

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When Billy Lynch first realized that Tandon Doss might allow his promising football career to implode, the Indiana assistant coach did not call the wide receiver into his office or even grab him by the facemask and stare him in the eyes.
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